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A McLean County judge will rule within 60 days which material can be presented at a hearing for Barton McNeil, who is seeking exoneration from his 1999 conviction in his

Lawyers for Bart McNeil asked a judge on Thursday to approve a full evidentiary hearing on McNeil’s innocence claim in the death of his 3-year-old daughter.

Bart McNeil is entitled to a thorough review of newly-discovered evidence in the death of his 3-year-old daughter, McNeil’s lawyers argued in a new court filing related to his petition for a new trial on murder charges.

On Russian Orthodoxy as one of the underpinnings of Putin's regime.

When: Elizabethtown Area school board workshop meeting, March 8.

SPRINGFIELD – Statewide issues like virus mandates and judicial gerrymandering land on the bench of the Fourth District appellate court where voters haven’t picked a Democrat in 24 years.

A hearing on new evidence that could clear Bart McNeil of murder was delayed on Friday by at least five months after a prosecutor said the state will first seek dismissal of McNeil’s petition for a new trial.

Victoria Baker was sentenced to 30 months probation Tuesday for harassing a witness in the 2019 murder trial of her sister Cynthia Baker, who was convicted of the brutal murder of an 8-year-old girl.

If the Elizabethtown Area School District moves forward with its recommendation to close two of its elementary schools, some residents say the culture change would be irreversible.

Jeffrey Martin, 56, was charged in January 2016 with sexually assaulting an elderly woman with whom he had been staying in Normal. The rape and child pornography cases against Jeffrey Martin took a baby step forward on Tuesday after a judge gave Martin 45 days to continue his search for a new lawyer in McLean County’s longest pending criminal case. Martin, 56, was charged in January 2016 with sexually assaulting an elderly woman with whom he had been staying in Normal. A search of his compute...